I wish iOS had its own version of BBM

We do...it's called iMessage

its called iMessage......

hrrslmpk said:

We do...it's called iMessage

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lifeguard said:

its called iMessage......

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My understanding is that unlike BBM, iMessage uses your personal information and displays it to the person on the other end, and BBM only uses PINs, so it would be more suitable for someone you barely know or someone you met online or something. Those aren't situations where I'd use iMessage, or lend out any personal information at all.

BBM on iOS sucks big time ..

pk7 said:

My understanding is that unlike BBM, iMessage uses your personal information and displays it to the person on the other end, and BBM only uses PINs, so it would be more suitable for someone you barely know or someone you met online or something. Those aren't situations where I'd use iMessage, or lend out any personal information at all.

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I don't think it displays personal information but yes, iMessage works off your phone number or your email addresses. Unless you create an anonymous email address that you associate with iMessage that you give out to people, it's not as anonymous as just a PIN.

You could make it use an email instead of your number if you really wanted

pk7 said:

My understanding is that unlike BBM, iMessage uses your personal information and displays it to the person on the other end, and BBM only uses PINs, so it would be more suitable for someone you barely know or someone you met online or something. Those aren't situations where I'd use iMessage, or lend out any personal information at all.

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You can disable showing your phone number and choose any email address you want as your ID, or even create an email address just for this. Just as good as PIN if not better.

Someone needs to stop sexting random people and concentrate on meeting a nice girl you can give your iMessage number to.

antiprotest said:

You can disable showing your phone number and choose any email address you want as your ID, or even create an email address just for this. Just as good as PIN if not better.

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Yup, that's an option, so shouldn't really be any worse than BBM in that respect.

msarway said:

i know iOS has bbm but its not the same i wish there was a similar app to bbm for apple lovers so we can chat and have contacts just for chatting. maybe i am missing the app but we don't have our own chat app

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It's called iMessage. Built right into the phone just like BBM was for Blackberry all those years ago. Imagine that...

msarway said:

iMessage dosent have groups and u can't post your pin to make friends. so iMessage works like bbm for delivery but it does not have the grouping aspect so its not the same.

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it does have group chat actually.. i use it daily

i don't think you know what you want tbh.

Didn't they an once a BBM app a few months ago?

msarway said:

iMessage dosent have groups and u can't post your pin to make friends. so iMessage works like bbm for delivery but it does not have the grouping aspect so its not the same.

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Of course there's groups. If you had some experience with iMessage, you'd know how to chat in groups

BBM is a piece of crap. I was trying to reply to a message and then the app tells me I have no open chats. I check my contacts and it says I have 0. Try to re-sign-in and it changed my PIN. So I lost 50~ contacts (some whose only contact into I had was BBM) and then changed my PIN so those people could no longer message me.

I went to BBM forums, and emailed support - got nothing, so just deleted the app.

You could also just use BBM and a PIN for sketchy people off the internet. iMessage doesn't give your personal data... So using your phone number or an email of choice is possible.

wsc9005 said:

BBM on iOS sucks big time ..

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BBM blows on all platforms. noboty wants it

Altis said:

You could also just use BBM and a PIN for sketchy people off the internet. iMessage doesn't give your personal data... So using your phone number or an email of choice is possible.

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Why would you want to talk to sketchy people?

hrrslmpk said:

Why would you want to talk to sketchy people?

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They're fun to talk to.

hrrslmpk said:

Why would you want to talk to sketchy people?

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So you can pretend to be brad Pitt, tom cruise, Angelina Jodie who you want. Also you can feed them any BS you want....

Imagine being a superstar for a day or two.....

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Why would you want to talk to sketchy people?

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I don't, but I was referring to Pk7's post where they implied that as a reason to have a PIN over a phone number or email address: anonymity.

I'm not sure the point of this discussion anyways since BBM is available on iOS, so you can just use that should you really want to.

Altis said:

I don't, but I was referring to Pk7's post where they implied that as a reason to have a PIN over a phone number or email address: anonymity.

I'm not sure the point of this discussion anyways since BBM is available on iOS, so you can just use that should you really want to.

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Well, realistically speaking, you should be able to make up a random email address and associated it with your Apple ID and use it for that kind of anonymity as well.

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